Nike Zoomx Dragonfly 2 Elite Prototype

Released on 19 June 2024 and part of Nike's ZoomX Dragonfly line. This release has a mesh upper in Multi-Color/Multi-Color. Nike began in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports, a distributor for Japanese shoemaker Onitsuka Tiger, selling shoes out of a car at track meets because Bill Bowerman thought American runners were being short changed. Sixty years later the company's track spikes are where that argument still gets settled. The ZoomX Dragonfly 2 Elite Prototype is a distance spike carrying the prototype designation, which is the label Nike puts on product built to be raced by its athletes rather than merchandised to a season. Prototype is not a styling word here. It signals a shoe whose job is to be tested at the top of the sport, in the same discipline where Steve Prefontaine became the brand's first track endorser.